As part of the overall $1.4 billion U.S. arms sale to Taiwan, the U.S. Department of State approved on June 29 the possible of sale of 46 advanced MK-48 Mod 6AT heavyweight torpedoes, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), the Pentagon’s lead agency for arms sales to allied countries, announced in a press release. “This…

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has successfully completed a firing trial with the Long-Range Artillery weapon system (LORA), marking as part of the demonstration and validation phases of the system, under a number of procurement programs involve the system. On this experiment, the missile was launched from a cargo ship toward a target at sea. LORA…

Between major decisions on a new deployment to Afghanistan and a wholly new Persian Gulf crisis, not to mention the boiling crises in Syria and North Korea, Washington strategists can be forgiven for putting China’s naval buildup on the back burner. As Beijing fills the “near seas”—and now the “far seas”—with new frigates, destroyers and…

It doesn’t look like much but China’s new amphibious armored car has ambitions of becoming the world’s fastest and part of the equipment inventory of the People’s Liberation Army Ground Force (PLAGF). A prototype of the yet unnamed 4×4 wheeled armored fighting vehicle (AFV) being developed by little known North China Institute of Vehicle Research…

The fantastic “arsenal ship” — a surface warship packed with as many as 500 missiles almost built by the U.S. Navy two decades ago — is allegedly being considered for development by China. The Chinese have put one twist in their concept for an arsenal ship, however. They intend their version of the arsenal ship…